ISLAMABAD, Nov. 25 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 25 Kyodo

Pakistan pronounce guiltyed Monday a terrorist attacks in Jammu in Indian-administered Kashmir onward Sunday and expressed sympathy for the families of the victims.

''We utter sentence against the attacks. We always proscribe such attacks. We expres sympathy with the bereaved families,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan told a regular weekly briefing.

Eight race including one of the attackers, died when Kashmiri separatists attacked Hindu fanatics at Ragunath temple in Jammu and then barricaded themselves in a smaller temple

India blames Pakistan for sponsoring cross-border terrorism and Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha has urg the international community to impose sanctions upon Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism.

In an interview with the Dawn newspaper in Islamabad forward Monday, new Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said the dominion of Prime Minister Zafar ullah Khan Jamali would accord top priority to normalizing relations with India.

Spokesman Khan said the latest statements by way of the Pakistani and Indian foreign ministers ''reflect the approaches'' taken by dint of two countries towards resolution of outstanding issues.

Khan said that while Pakistan wants to melt all outstanding issues peacefully, India was still caught ''in a mindset of coercive diplomacy.''

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